Press | Clements Dispatch

The CIA released Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Johnson and Kennedy administrations on September 16th at the LBJ Presidential Library. Executive Director William Inboden was a featured guest on the panel titled “Delivering Intelligence to the President.” 

The Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund enables UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. This summer, the Center funded nine students and here is Mariam Ahmed’s story. 

The Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin sponsored “Intelligence in American Society” with featured speaker CIA Director John O. Brennan, University of Texas Chancellor William McRaven, former Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss, and Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick. 

Professor Eugene Gholz has been awarded the 2015 Fiona McGillivray award at the 2015 APSA annual meeting for a paper he presented in 2014 and later published titled “Assessing the ‘Threat’ of International Tension to the U.S. Economy.” 

The Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund enables UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. This summer, the Center funded nine students and here is Imaad Khan’s story. 

The Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund enables UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. This summer, the Center funded nine students and here is Caitlin Goodrich’s story. 

In August 2015, the Clements Center welcomed Dr. Olivia Sohns of the University of Cambridge and Dr. Michael Taylor of UC Berkeley to the University of Texas.

On August 4, incoming students in the LBJ School’s masters degree programs completed an analytic simulation led by visiting officials from CIA’s Directorate of Analysis. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists of its inaugural competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

On Sunday, July 26, the Clements Center’s second annual Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft kicked-off in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

The Clements Center’s Summer Student Development Fund enables UT undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to intern at some of the top governmental and non-governmental organizations across the world by providing monetary support for unpaid positions. This summer, the Center funded nine students and here is Jennifer Johnson’s story. 

Incoming Graduate Research Student Anna Waterfield and the Clements Center’s 2014-15 Graduate Assistant Ashley Nelle-Davis were featured in an online discussion on VICE News “On the Line” in early July. 

The Clements Center congratulates Jim Langdon on being named one of this year’s University of Texas-Austin Distinguished Alumni. 

From November 19-21, 2015, the Clements Center for National Security and Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law will sponsor the second annual National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin. This year’s event, “Great Powers, Failed States, and New Frontiers: National Security Challenges in the 21st Century,” will explore the security challenges the U.S. currently faces, and how our national security institutions are positioned to respond.

Clements Undergraduate and Graduate Fellows are selected based on their outstanding academic achievements and professional qualities. Several Fellows will be starting the next chapter in their career this fall and the Center would like to recognize their accomplishments. 

The Clements Center’s Maymester program kicked off in London this week. 16 students from a wide range of departments are taking part in the 4-week course that will primarily be taught by faculty in the Department of War Studies at the world-renowned King’s College London.

The Clements Center recognizes that great research and scholarship often requires great resources. The Center therefore provides grants to UT students and professors who undertake research at presidential libraries and foreign archives, as well as paper presentations at academic conferences. 

On May 13, Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney and Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick spoke to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board about “Separation of Powers and the History of E.O. 12333.” Executive Order 12333 “governs the intelligence efforts of the United States.”

Clements Center Graduate Research Assistant and Fellow Megan Reiss was selected by the Rumsfeld Foundation to receive a fellowship to support her research on presidential decision making and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as she works to finish her PhD in Public Policy.

For two centuries, the staff ride has been the most important tool for combining history education with wargaming. Staff rides at the Clements Center employ pre-reading, classroom discussions, on-site tours, and hands-on simulation exercises.

The Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft would like to congratulate Dr. Greg Fenves on being appointed as the next University of Texas president.

On Thursday, April 16, the Clements and Strauss Centers welcomed former Islamabad CIA Station Chief Bob Grenier to discuss his new book, 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary.

The Clements Center sponsored the participation this week of 16 University of Texas-Austin students in “Exercise Nine Innings” at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the inaugural round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

On Wednesday, April 1, the Clements Center welcomed Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University to UT Austin to present the Annual Strategic Insights from the Ancient World Lecture. 

The Clements Center will host two leading experts on two of the world’s most important regions, Asia and the Middle East, this week.

The Clements Center is seeking applications for funding from undergraduate and graduate students who have secured unpaid summer internships related to national security and foreign policy. Funding will be awarded to those students whose summer work best reflects the mission and goals of the Clements Center.

The Clements and Strauss Centers were represented by Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick at a March 3, 2015 symposium on A Decade of IC Integration & The Challenges Ahead hosted in Arlington, Virginia by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

On Thursday, April 2nd at 4:00pm in the Blanton Museum Auditorium, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) will speak at UT on national security. 

The “Presidential Power, Then and Now” lecture series will be hosted by the Clements Center in the spring of 2015. The series will examine the origins of presidential power and how the framers conceived of the office of the presidency.

The Clements Center would like to extend a warm welcome to the new University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven. 

The Clements Center would like to congratulate Statecraft Board member Ashton Carter on his nomination to be the next Secretary of Defense, replacing Secretary Chuck Hagel.  

The Clements Center recently released its Winter 2014 newsletter. The online publication highlights the great accomplishments from fall 2014 and looks ahead to the spring semester. 

James Barnett will be spending five months in the spring of 2015 in Amman, Jordan studying regional diplomacy and Arabic at the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.

In Spring 2015, the Clements Center is pleased to sponsor the “Young Scholars Speaker Series.” The series will feature four young scholars who have recently published books on topics ranging from Syria to John Quincy Adams.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steele Brand will teach a class of over 60 undergraduate students about “Military History to 1640” for UT’s Department of History in Spring 2015.